Tasos Livaditis

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Tasos Livaditis

Tasos Livaditis ( Greek Τάσος Λειβαδίτης ; * April 20, 1922 in Athens ; † October 30, 1988 ibid) was a Greek poet .

Life

Livaditis studied law at the University of Athens , but soon devoted himself to poetry. Strong political involvement in the left movement, which is why he was convicted, led to exile and imprisonment (1947 to 1951, including on the torture island of Makronissos , together with Jannis Ritsos , Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Katrakis ). He had his first publication in 1946 in the magazine Elefthera Grammata. In 1952 his first volume of poetry, Battle on the Edge of Night, was published . Between 1954 and 1980 he worked as a literary critic for the Avgi newspaper. Some of his books were banned in the 1950s because of inflammatory content. Tassos Livaditis received a number of national and international awards for poetry and was considered one of the most outstanding poets in Greece of the last century. Tassos Livaditis died in Athens in 1988.